:quality(80)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/lanacionar/4ML3NZXQNZCG3LHEPD7SGIPQ4E.jpg "WhatsApp begins to implement reactions to messages in its beta version for Android")
WhatsApp is launching one of its most anticipated features, which will give Android users the option to react to messages with an emoji visible to all members of a group, which some beta testers have already had access to.
This deployment is taking place in WhatsApp beta for Android 2.22.8.3 and, as reported by WABetaInfopresents six different emojis to represent an emotion generated by a certain message.
These are the same ones that Facebook already includesa social network that, like WhatsApp, is also owned by Meta, except for the angry emoji, with a red face.
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Therefore, the emojis that are currently available for beta testers and that, in principle, will reach the official version are:
As explained by WABetaInfo, although only certain beta testers can react to messages, all users can see the reactions of the messages.
WhatsApp has been working on this function since August 2021, and it was this same portal that noticed references to this function in the code of beta versions of the application.
Then, its appearance was not known, until September of that same year, when it was discovered what the appearance of these reactions to messages on WhatsApp for iOS would be through a screenshot that showed its appearance shared by said portal.
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